Works based on Faust

Ballets

• Faust ballets

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 Song – Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
• Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade and Der König in Thule
• Giuseppe Verdi's Perduta ho la pace
• Richard Wagner's Faust Overture
• Felix Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht
• Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust
• Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges', Op. 33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust"
• Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust
• Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony, Mephisto Waltzes and Mephisto Polka
• Henryk Wieniawski's Fantaisie brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20.
• Jean-Delphin Alard's Fantaisie de concert sur Faust, Op. 47
• Henri Vieuxtemps's Fantasie sur "Faust" de Ch. Gounod
• Pablo de Sarasate's "Nouvelle fantaisie sur 'Faust'", Op. 13
• Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea" is a version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tavern scene of Goethe's Faust, pt. 1, also previously set by Beethoven.
• Emilie Mayer's Faust Overture
• Jean Roger-Ducasse's Au jardin de Marguerite, symphonic poem with chorus
• Gustav Mahler's Part II of Symphony No. 8
• Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No.1
• Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène
• Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony and opera Faust
• Julius Röntgen's Aus Goethes Faust
• Hans Werner Henze's Chor gefangener Trojer
• Alexander Lokshin's Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust
• Alfred Schnittke's ''Faust Cantata''

Operas

• Louis Spohr's Faust
• Louise Bertin's Fausto
• Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust
• Charles Gounod's Faust
• Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele
• Meyer Lutz's romantic opera Faust and Marguerite and his burlesque Faust up to date
• Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust
• Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel
• Hermann Reutter's
• *Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47
• *Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75
• Douglas Moore's The Devil and Daniel Webster
• Gertrude Stein's Faustus Lights the Lights">Faustus (play)">Faustus Lights the Lights
• Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
• Hanns Eisler's Johann Faustus
• Havergal Brian's Faust
• Henri Pousseur and Michel Butor, Votre Faust, and related "satellite" works
• Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus, libretto by Hugo Claus
• Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten
• Rudolf Volz's Rock Opera Faust with original lyrics by Goethe
• John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic
• Pascal Dusapin's ''Faustus, the Last Night''

Comics and animation

• Spawn
• DefoeFaust, Der Tragödie erster Teil by German artist Flix
• Felix Faust
• Sebastian Faust
• Treehouse of Horror IV

Manga and anime

• ''Black Clover''

Popular music

• A broadside ballad, probably based on the 1592 pamphlet by P.F., is the earliest surviving English-language musical treatment of the Faust story.
• Blues guitarist Tommy Johnson claimed to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar mastery. Tommy Johnson's claim precedes that of Robert Johnson's.
• Blues guitarist Robert Johnson fancifully said to have acquired his playing skill from the devil at a deserted crossroads. Songs such as "Cross Road Blues" and "Me and [the Devil Blues]" allude to his pact with the devil.
• Faun's song "König von Thule" is a cover of Gretchen's song in the first part of Goethe's Faust. Goethe wrote this particular song in 1774.
• Poet JB Goodenough's "Children of Michael" which tells the story of a man named Michael who makes a deal with the year, to have many children but the year has to "choose one for himself". The story features a chorus throughout, and was recorded by Irish folk singer Tommy Makem on his album Ancient Pulsing.
• The Band's "Daniel and the Sacred Harp"
• Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• Frank Zappa's "Titties & Beer"
• The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
• Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' for You"
• The Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger" single refers to Mephistopheles by way of analogy
• Konrad Boehmer Apocalipsis cum figuris
• The Fall's "Dktr Faustus"
• Sabbat's "A Cautionary Tale"
• Randy Newman's Faust
• Moonspell's "Mephisto"
• Akercocke's "Marguerite & Gretchen" ; the band's name is taken from the talking Capuchin monkey in Robert Nye's Faust.
• Current 93's album Faust, based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock
• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
• Secret Sphere's "Dr. Faustus"
• Dimmu Borgir's "The Maelstrom Mephisto"
• Gorillaz' "Faust"
• Septic Flesh's "Faust"
• Muse's "The Small Print"
• Kamelot's Epica Saga
• Cradle of Filth's "Absinthe with Faust"
• Immortal Technique's "Dance With The Devil"
• Konrad Boehmer Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt
• Tom Waits's "Lucinda"
• Enigma "Dancing With Mephisto"
• Tenacious D's The Pick of Destiny
• Little Tragedies' New Faust
• Switchfoot's "Faust, Midas and Myself"
• Streetlight Manifesto's "Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe"
• Radiohead's "Faust Arp" and "Videotape"
• Ihsahn's "Alchemist" quotes two passages from Goethe's Faust. The songs "Malediction" and "Elevator" likewise allude to Faustian themes
• Dark Moor's "Faustus"
• The Human Abstract's "Faust"
• Agalloch's Faustian Echoes
• SicKtanicK's "Faust"
• Marilyn Manson's "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles"
• Halsey's "Hold Me Down" makes a number of sexualized Faustian allusions
• Iron Mask's "Doctor Faust"
• Faust is the stage name of black metal musician Bård Eithun.
• Faust, a German Krautrock band
• Ghost's "Call Me Little Sunshine". Mephistophles is the main protagonist of the song, trying to steal "little sunshines" body.

Fairy tales

• ''Wicked John and the Devil''

Film and television

Non-English-language films

• ''When the Devil Calls Your Name''

English-language films

• * Little Shop of Horrors Bedazzled
• * Bedazzled Doctor Faustus Rosemary's Baby Phantom of the Paradise The Omen
• *Damien: Omen II
• *Omen III: The Final Conflict
• *Omen IV: The Awakening
• *The Omen The Devil and Max Devlin Oh, God! You Devil Crossroads Angel Heart Hellraiser The Witches of Eastwick The Little Mermaid
• * The Little Mermaid The Devil's Advocate Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny Shortcut to Happiness The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The Witch American Satan Upgrade The Last Faust

• * Escape Clause
• * Still Valley
• * Printer's Devil
• * Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
• * The Last Night of a Jockey
• * Dealer's Choice
• * I of Newton
• * Time and Teresa Golowitz
• *Dinosaurs:
• * Life in the Faust Lane I Was a Teenage Faust
• ''Paradise City''

Paintings

• ''Faust''

Plays

• Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus
• Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• William Mountfort's The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, made into a farce
• John Rich's The Necromancer, or Harlequin Dr. Faustus
• John Thurmond's Harlequin Doctor Faustus and The Miser, or Wagner and Abericock
• Gotthold Lessing's Doktor Faust, mentioned in a contribution to a magazine, but otherwise left unfinished and collected and published posthumously in its original, incomplete form
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Don Juan und Faust
• Alexander Pushkin's A scene from Faust
• Nikolaus Lenau's Faust
• George Sand's Les Sept Cordes de la Lyre
• Heinrich Heine's Der Doktor Faust. Ein Tanzpoem
• Dion Boucicault's Faust and Margaret
• Friedrich Theodor Vischer's Faust. Der Tragödie dritter Teil, a parody of Goethe's Faust Part Two
• H. J. Byron's Little Doctor Faust
• W. S. Gilbert's Gretchen, an 1879 play based on Goethe's version of the Faust legend
• Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat, a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto by C.F. Ramuz
• Anatoly Lunacharsky's Фауст и город
• Michel de Ghelderode's La Mort du Docteur Faust
• Fernando Pessoa's Fausto Tragédia Subjectiva
• Dorothy L. Sayers' The Devil to Pay
• Paul Valéry's Mon Faust Cabin in the Sky
• Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's Damn Yankees
• Václav Havel's Temptation
• Richard Schechner's Faust Gastronome
• Todd Alcott's Jane Faust
• George Axelrod's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Little Shop of Horrors, a musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken based on The 1960 Film
• David Ives's Don Juan in Chicago
• John Jesurun's Faust/How I Rose
• La Fura dels Baus's Faust: Version 3.0
• David Mamet's Faustus
• Punchdrunk's Faust in Promenade
• David Davalos' Wittenberg
• Edgar Brau's Fausto, a play
• David Massingham and Matthew Townend's ''Plague! The Musical''

Poetry

• George Gordon, Lord Byron's Manfred
• Estanislao del Campo, Fausto
• D. J. Enright's "A Faust Book"
• Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs. Faust"
• Charles Baudelaire's "Châtiment De L`Orgueil " and "The Generous Gambler"
• Karl Shapiro's "The Progress of Faust"
• J. M. R. Lenz's "Die Hollenrichter"
• Hart Crane's "Of the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"
• Joseph Brodsky's "Two Hours in Reservoir"
• Alexandre Pushkin's "Little Tragedies"

Prose fiction

• Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's Fausts Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt
• Matthew Lewis's The Monk
• Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
• Pauline Hopkin's Of One Blood
• Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"
• G. W. M. Reynolds' Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals and Wagner, the Wehr-wolf
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
• Ivan Turgenev's Faust
• Charles Baudelaire's The Generous Gambler
• Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles
• Samuel Adams Drake's Jonathan Moulton and the Devil
• Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Quincas Borba
• Peadar Ua Laoghaire's Séadna
• Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan
• Alfred Jarry's Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician
• Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel
• Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera
• Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
• Klaus Mann's Mephisto
• Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster
• Horace L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp's None But Lucifer
• Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
• John Myers Myers's Silverlock
• Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
• William Gaddis' The Recognitions
• Mack Reynolds' "Burnt Toast"
• João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas
• Roger Zelazny's For a Breath I Tarry
• John Hersey's Too Far to Walk
• James Blish's Black Easter and The Day After Judgment
• Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer
• Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins
• William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel
• Robert Nye's Faust
• Stephen King's Christine
• John Banville's Mefisto
• Clive Barker's The Damnation Game
• Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart
• Carl Deuker's On the Devil's Court
• Nelson DeMille's The Gold Coast
• Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric
• Alan Judd's The Devil's Own Work
• Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's If at Faust You Don't Succeed
• Kim Newman's The Quorum
• Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals
• Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
• Jeanne Kalogridis's The Diaries of the Family Draculs trilogy
• Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust
• Howard Waldrop's "Heart Of Whitenesse"
• Timothy Taylor's Stanley Park
• Maureen Johnson's Devilish
• Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
• David Macinnis Gill's Soul Enchilada
• Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Chapter 5 ponders over a Faustian bargain that is in the spirit of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer.
• Oliver Pötzsch's The Master's Apprentice
• V. E. Schwab's ''The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue''

Games

• ''Limbus Company''